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Local COVID roundup 2/17: region ICU capacity goes down
PEORIA, Ill. -- Five Peoria County residents between Tuesday and Wednesday became casualties of COVID-19. Two of them, both women in their 80s, were long-term care facility residents. One lived at Cor...
Feb 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/17: wintry WX slows vax shipments
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The winter storm that slammed most of the United States this week has wreaked havoc on COVID-19 vaccine shipments. The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday onl...
Feb 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Provocative and polarizing U.S. talk radio luminary Rush Limbaugh, a leading voice on the American political right since the 1980s who boosted, and was honored by, former Presid...
Feb 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Rush Limbaugh gives an introductory speech before U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. December 21, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
BU officials: return to normal classes possible by fall
PEORIA, Ill. - Bradley University officials have announced they plan to return the institution to full-time traditional learning, complete with regular campus life and extracurricular activities, for ...
Feb 17, 2021
One injured in Pekin stabbing overnight
PEKIN, Ill. -- Pekin Police were called at approximately 11:54 p.m. Tuesday to the 100 block of Sapp Street on reports of a man being stabbed. Public Information Officer Billie Ingles said that a male...
Feb 17, 2021 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Peoria officer crashes into McDonald's on Western
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria Police officer was injured Wednesday morning after losing control of their squad car, crashing into a business on Western Avenue. "The squad car left the roadway and crashed i...
Feb 17, 2021 MWC-PPD
IL State of the State address will be virtual Wednesday
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker will deliver his State of the State and budget address virtually at noon Wednesday. According to Pritzker's press secretary, the State of the State and ...
Feb 17, 2021 Illinois.gov
With Trump's impeachment trial over, Biden pushes his agenda in televised town hall
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Joe Biden expressed optimism on Tuesday that most U.S. schools would be open by late spring and vowed to continue accelerating the country's COVID-19 vaccination progra...
Feb 17, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., February 16, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Texans shiver through night, as Arctic cold keeps energy offline
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Millions of people in Texas awoke on Wednesday without heat again, as power failures continued to plague the state following a historic winter storm that has killed 21 peopl...
Feb 17, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man walks to his friend's home in a neighbourhood without electricity as snow covers the BlackHawk neighborhood in Pflugerville, Texas, U.S. February 15, 2021. Picture taken February 15, 2021. Bronte Wittpenn/Austin American-Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS.
East Peoria council approves city rehab plan
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- A plan to upgrade livability in three East Peoria neighborhoods is on the brink of coming to fruition. City council voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a resolution on the ci...
Feb 16, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol
